Julian Fisher - Spies and the Art of Influence and Alliances

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Julian Fisher is a seasoned field operative like our own Pete A Turner. Yep, this is a Spy vs Spy episode. Julian has authored a book called "Think Like a Spy." Discover the secret skills of influence and persuasion taught to intelligence officers and learn how to adapt them to win over personal and professional allies to your cause. Get Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances on amzn.to/4gET4U9 Every day, intelligence officers achieve the unimaginable. They persuade people to share classified secrets with them. To become traitors, in fact. And their targets do it willingly, despite the risk of imprisonment, torture and, even, execution. Spies achieve this thanks to their structured use of nine secret skills of espionage. In Think Like a Spy, you’ll learn these techniques and how to adapt them for effective and ethical use in your own life. A good spy is a people-person. She knows how to identify a potential agent, how to attract their attention and what to do to build an enduring relationship with them. From this base, she will coax out personal information to work out what makes her target tick. She will use that knowledge and her understanding of human psychology to her advantage while winning lasting commitment from her new ally.